Title: Improving Instruction by Teaching Assistants in Introductory
Architecture Courses
Faculty: Kenneth Schwartz and Peter Waldman
Description: Schwartz and Waldman will develop a consistent
and formalized process of instruction for Teaching Assistants who teach
"Architecture as a Covenant" (Arch 101) and "Fundamental of Architecture"
(Arch 102). The grant will enable the professors to develop a workshop
and retreats for the TAs.

Title: Development of an Electronic Slide Archive and Interactive
Web Site
Faculty: C. W. Westfall
Description: Westfall will create an electronic slide archive
and interactive website for a new interdisciplinary graduate core course.

Architecture and Engineering

Title: Fundamentals of Seismic Design: A Model for Interdisciplinary
Team Teaching
Faculty: Kirk Martini, Tom Baber, Furman Barton and Lori Graham
Description: The Department of Architecture and the Department
of Civil Engineering will collaborate in developing a new technical elective
course, "Fundamentals of Seismic Design" to be offered in the Department
of Civil Engineering to fourth-year undergraduates, graduate students and
architecture students. The grant will be primary used to fund student assistance
in developing and preparing lab exercise material, web material and templates.
Website: Introduction
to Seismic Design

Title: Proposal to Enhance the Integrated, or "Block," Commerce
Curriculum in the Third-Year
Faculty: Ray Haas and fifteen other Commerce faculty
Description: This effort will evaluate and further develop an
extant teaching program for third-year Commerce students. The evaluation
will consist of surveys and focus groups of third-year students, which
will be analyzed by Commerce faculty.

Title: Teaching Practicum for TAs teaching Introductory Accounting
I (Comm 201)
Faculty: Richard A. Scott
Description: This award is to provide a small honorarium for
the six faculty members who will teach the Practicum for TAs in August.

Title: Development of a Web-Based System for the Evaluation of
Teaching
Faculty: Linda Bunker
Description: Bunker will design, test, and validate an anonymous,
Internet-based course evaluation system which can be used by students throughout
the University to provide feedback to instructors about the quality of
their teaching.

Title: Introducing Case-Study Pedagogy and Technologically Aided
Discussion into the Classroom
Faculty: Frederick M. Hess
Description: Hess aims to introduce case-study learning and
electronic informational and discussion formats into three different courses
on education policy. These innovations will facilitate interaction between
students in the course, who come from different schools in the University
and in some instances live a great distance from Charlottesville.

Title: Incorporation of Instructional Technology in ENGR 205
Solid Mechanics I (Statics)
Faculty: Lori Graham
Description: Under Graham's guidance, an advanced undergraduate
will produce a package of technological software, lecture demonstrations,
and labs for the several faculty members and TAs involved in teaching ENGR
205 Solid Mechanics, a required civil engineering course.

Title: Web-Based Course Evaluation System for the School of Engineering
and Applied Science
Faculty: Larry Richards
Description: In conjunction with a newly created standing committee
on teaching effectiveness, Professor Richards proposes to supervise the
creation of a Web-based course evaluation system, designed especially for
the needs of the Engineering School by an ad hoc committee on Teaching
& Course Evaluation.

School of Nursing

Title: Inserting Hypermedia in Core Professional Courses
Faculty: Sarah Farrell
Description: This project will develop a web page for a senior
level undergraduate nursing course with hyperlinks to course materials
from prerequisite courses. This site has the potential to strengthen the
context and enhance the relevance of prerequisite knowledge for core nursing
curriculum.

Title: The Development of Interdisciplinary Components of an
Integrated Four-Semester Introductory College Chemistry Curriculum
Faculty: Cassandra Fraser, M. G. Finn and W. Dean Harman
Description: The team plans to reorganize and redesign Chem
181, 182, 281 and 282. The proposed four-semester chemistry curricula constitute
a radical departure from traditional college chemistry curricula.

Title: Feasibility Studies of University-Wide, Computer Technology-Based
Curriculum Enhancements at the University of Virginia
Faculty: Charles M. Grisham
Description: Grisham will test the feasibility of writing software
components that can be used by University faculty to accomplish common
pedagogical activities, such as electronic enrollment databases, web-based
quiz and testing software and virtual-reality modeling of textbook figures
in three dimensions.

Title: Web Site for Chemistry for Citizens (121N-122N)
Faculty: Carl Trindle
Description: Trindle will design a website for the nonmajors
course, Chemistry for Citizens (121N-122N). This website will be a guide
to the students in the class and journalists interested in the ideas of
chemistry.
Websites: CHEM
121: General ChemistryCHEM 122:
Contemporary Chemistry

Classics

Title: Enhancement of the Teaching of Intermediate Latin
Faculty: John Dillery
Description: Dillery will develop a summer teaching seminar
for the TAs who will teach Latin classes, including a Latin Study Center,
a Latin workbook and a website for Latin classes.

Title: Purchase of a HP Office Jet Printer/Scanner
Faculty: Thomas Bloom
Description: The purchase of a printer/scanner will assist undergraduate
and graduate student designers in theatrical drafting and graphic image
processing. This equipment will benefit six faculty members and all design
students enrolled in scenic, costume, lighting, and technical design courses.

Title: Purchase of Dialect Tapes and CD-ROMS
Faculty: Kate Burke
Description: Burke will purchase of a collection primary source
dialect tapes and CDs that will improve the teaching of voice courses,
acting classes, and the coaching of dialects in theatrical productions.

Title: Purchase of Full Scores of Musical Theater
Faculty: Bob Chapel
Description: Chapel will purchase additional musical theater
scores in order to fill large gaps in the musical theater repertoire available
for students in DRAMA 442: Musical Theater Performance.

Title: Creating a Course Web Site for DRAM 504: Nineteenth Century
American Theater
Faculty: John Frick
Description: Frick's project will enable the revision and improvement
of his course on 19th-Century American Theater & Drama, by covering
the expenses of finding new materials, securing the rights to them and
putting the whole course on-line.

Title: Purchase of Costume Laboratory Drawer Units
Faculty: Gweneth West
Description: West will purchase several costume drawer units
for the Drama Department's large collection of theatrical costumes. This
equipment, which the department does not currently possess, will greatly
enhance the instructional resources of two faculty members, three TAs,
and the work of dozens of students in thirteen costume design and technology
courses.

Title: Writing Seminars
Faculty: Greg Colomb
Description: This pilot project will develop writing seminars
to teach students to write papers for various disciplines. Teaching materials
will be developed that can be used as models for similar writing courses.

Title: Improvement of Teaching through Technological Resources
Faculty: Stephen Cushman
Description: This project will assemble a web-based electronic
archive to enhance teaching of a large, new required course for English
majors. The site will contain a substantial body of material, including
critical arguments, historical and bibliographical materials, manuscripts
and cultural artifacts.
Website: ENGL
383: History of Literature in English III

Environmental Sciences

Title: Elements of Ecology
Faculty: Thomas Smith
Description: A website will be developed to support a new course,
Elements of Ecology, that will be an introduction to the science of ecology
and its application to current environmental issues. The web site will
provide access to course materials, scientific literature and governmental
and non-governmental resources.

French

Title: French Teaching and Learning Resources Site
Faculty: Cheryl Krueger
Description: This project will establish an easily accessed
instructional resources website for teachers of French language courses
and their students. This site will extend and complement currently existing
resources.

Title: Internet-Enhanced Teaching for Course on Human Rights
in World Politics
Faculty: Michael Joseph Smith
Description: An Internet web site will be developed that will
enhance a new course on "Human Rights in World Politics" by providing students
with links to resources such as United Nations Documents, online resources
of the Minnesota Library on Human Rights, and a wide range of human rights
organizations.

History

Title: Teaching History Workshops
Faculty: Tico Braun
Description: This project will develop a year-long series of
teaching workshops for graduate students and faculty. These workshops will
focus on issues that are specific to teaching the discipline of history.

Mathematics

Title: Graduate Teaching Assistants in Mathematics
Faculty: Harold Ward
Description: This project will enhance the efficacy of TAs in
Mathematics by the preparation and distribution of a formal handbook for
them, and by systematic employment of the Teaching Analysis Poll program
of the Teaching Resource Center.

Title: Music Technology Proposal
Faculty: Judith Shatin
Description: This project identifies, analyzes and implements
a software program for musicianship and music theory instruction. It also
critically evaluates software programs that would allow instructors to
monitor individual student's progress.

Title: New Interdisciplinary Program and Teaching Enhancements
for the Philosophy Department
Faculty: Daniel Devereux, Chair of Philosophy Department
Description: The Philosophy Department will help develop a new
interdisciplinary program in Philosophy, Politics and Law in conjunction
with Government and Foreign Affairs. Assistance will also be provided to
faculty members developing course web pages, and training sessions will
be given to Philosophy TAs.

Physics

Title: Interdisciplinary Teaching of Math and Science Courses
Faculty: Steven Thornton
Description: Faculty in Arts and Sciences, the Curry School
and Engineering will collaborate to develop new interdisciplinary courses
in math and science aimed at undergraduate students who do not intend to
major in the sciences. The courses will stress "best practice" pedagogical
methods, appropriate instructional technology, and hands-on learning methods.

Psychology

Title: Multimedia Courseware for Introductory Child Psychology
Faculty: Charlotte Patterson
Description: Digitized video materials will be developed to
give students in this large lecture class experiences such as "virtual"
visits to the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at UVA Hospital, child care facilities,
and child development research labs around the country. Students will not
only be able to read about, but also see and hear for themselves contemporary
research procedures and findings, observe different community settings
in which children grow up, and try their hands at the use of some well-known
research methods.

Title: Image Bank for Introduction to Eastern Religions
Faculty: Anne Monius
Description: Electronic images will be assembled and made available
on the World Wide Web for class presentations and for students in this
large lecture class in Eastern Religions. Images will include maps, photographs
of religious architecture, and a variety of religious images.

Title: Evaluation Assistant and Visual Materials for Religious
Studies
Faculty: Gene Rogers
Description: An evaluation assistant will prepare and schedule
exit interviews with undergraduates, as well as design and process machine-scannable
teaching evaluation forms. The grant will also fund the acquisition of
maps and slides to be used in a variety of courses in religious studies.

Slavic Languages and Literature

Title: Creation of Web Site to Support Courses in Russian Literature
in Translation
Faculty: Julian Connolly
Description: A website will be created offering an individualized
set of explanatory materials, complete with photographs and text, keyed
to each of the literary works covered in courses on 19th-Century Russian
Literature in Translation, and on Dostoevsky. These materials will elucidate
cultural and social references in the literary texts, which are likely
to be unfamiliar to the students in the class.
Website: RUTR
335: Devils and Doubles in 19th Century Russian Literature

Title: Development of Teaching Materials for Course in Black
English
Faculty: Mark Elson
Description: Audio-visual materials will be developed for students
studying the history and structure of Black English. Other course materials,
such as a website and exercises for discussion sections, will also be created.
Website: LNGS
222: Black English

Title: Integrating Culture into Russian Literature Courses
Faculty: Karen Ryan-Hayes
Description: Course materials for the Modern Russian Culture
course will be developed on CD, allowing the integration of architecture,
film, painting and music into the course. Ryan-Hayes will also share with
her colleagues in the Slavic Department the ideas and skills she acquires
through this project.
Website: RUTR
236/336: Modern Russian Culture

Title: Entering the 21st Century Along with American Business:
Technological Enhancements to a Course in the Sociology of American Business
Faculty: Sarah Corse
Description: The large lecture course in the Sociology of American
Business will be redesigned using new teaching technologies, including
a class website and visual materials for classroom presentation. The website
will include links to appropriate outside materials, discussion questions
and section exercises, as well as a simulation exercise.
Website: SOC
279: Sociology of American Business